Service Details
Name:
 NICHOLSON
Given Name:
 HUBERT CUTHBERT
Initials:
 H C
Service No:
 4510
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 1st Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "B" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1916-10-17
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Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, received in front the Butte de Warlencourt. In the night of the 16-17th October, the 1st S.A.I. relieved the 3rd S.A.I. in the front trenches. Large working parties were employed in widening and deepening the communication trenches to The Pimple and the Front line.
Additional
Information:
Brother of Mary Elizabeth Nicholson, of Uitenhage. Wounded in Delville Wood on the 16th July 1916.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Grave Reference:
 III. H. 3.

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